Fox News host Sean Hannity, during an interview with Liz Cheney, cited an allegedly faked interview with newly elected Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi in an attempt to attack President Obama for supporting Egypt’s first free election.

Fars duped some international news outlets, like Reuters, which scrubbed the original story and issued a new story where a top Morsi aid denied that he was even interviewed by Fars.

The reissued Reuters story came out just after 5 p.m., nearly four full hours before Hannity’s show took the airwaves. But that didn’t stop the right-wing host from citing the disputed interview:

HANNITY: But just who is this administration relieved to have as the Egypt’s next leader? Well, for starters. He’s no ally of Israel. Morsi in the past has called Israelis, quote, “vampires and killers.”

And today in an interview with an Iranian news agency, he is quoted as saying he intends to reconsider the Camp David accord. Yet despite these outrageous comments, the White House is relieved?

Fox News even reported hours before Hannity’s show that “a Morsi spokesman denied he did an interview with the Iranian news service who quotes Morsi promising to renew ties between the two countries.”

At RFE/RL, Golnaz Esfandiari pointed out that even fellow Iranian state media got in on the action of doubting the veracity of the Fars interview. So Hannity was duped by the Iranian propaganda even longer than the Iranian government itself.